HARARE – Opposition parties yesterday slammed President Robert Mugabe and demanded his immediate resignation after he ridiculously claimed that Zimbabwe is only second to South Africa (SA) in terms of development on the continent. The recently turned 93 leader, whose government is accused of decimating Zimbabwe’s economy and causing untold suffering to ordinary masses, told…
HARARE – Regional Zanu PF elections to choose a substantive chairperson for the volatile Masvingo Province have been thrown into disarray after one of the candidates, Mutero Masanganise, pulled out of the race yesterday claiming that the poll had not been sanctioned by the politburo. Masanganise is said to be aligned to the ruling party’s Generation…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has laid into the commander of the Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga — telling him to stop barking from the sidelines and daring him to remove his military uniform and join politics full-time if he desires a political career. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, in the wake…
HARARE – The trial of Mbare officer-in-charge who reportedly attempted to swallow bribe money following a trap yesterday took a new twist as a witness testified that she had always demanded money in exchange for free passage of commuter omnibuses. Violet Sigauke is being charged with criminal abuse of office and trial proceedings are before…
HARARE – Authorities must amend constitutional provisions relating to assisted voting ahead of the 2018 elections, as the current ones are prone to abuse, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has urged. This comes as the number of assisted voters in the country’s previous elections has been contentious, due to vote rigging fears. Opposition parties have…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe on Tuesday tore into Zanu PF Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba describing a video he filmed of the critically ill Dick “Cde Chinx” Chingaira as “sick”. The video of the veteran musician, helplessly lying on his hospital bed, has since gone viral on social media. It has courted the…
HARARE – The Tobacco Sales Floors (TSF) premises were turned into a war zone yesterday as police fought running battles with angry farmers who staged a demonstration demanding their cash from banks. Police tears-gased and thrashed the desperate farmers in a mayhem which left some injured and properties destroyed. The skirmishes erupted after the police tried…
HARARE – Norton Council has approached the courts seeking a protection order against the town’s legislator Temba Mliswa, whom they accuse of harassing the local authority’s employees. In an interview with the Daily News this week, the town’s chairperson Precious Mufahore, said the protection order was to bar the former Zanu PF official from getting…
HARARE – Opposition political parties have blasted the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings’ ZBCTV for censoring live parliamentary debates whenever MPs question matters that put Zanu PF and the government in bad light. It has almost become a trend that when MPs ask sensitive issues, the national broadcaster crosses over to commentators who will be on stand-by…
HARARE – Mines minister Walter Chidakwa has been caught in the eye of a storm after he lied that all the legal issues surrounding government’s takeover of the Chiadzwa diamond fields have been completed. This comes at a time the newly-formed government mining company — Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) — is still embroiled in…
